• Judges could be manipulated by Wikipedia articles, MIT study warns

    Judges could be manipulated by Wikipedia articles, MIT study warns
    Litigants could game Wikipedia to influence legal decisions, according to new research. A study led by Neil Thompson from MIT’s Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL) discovered that judges were more likely to cite legal cases that have a Wikipedia article. The finding has sparked  concerns that judicial decisions are being shaped by unreliable information. The openness of Wikipedia could also lead legal judgements to be manipulated. “A well-resourced litigant could encoura

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